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Quotation by Lewis Thomas
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"Living Language" The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Viking (1974)"Natural Man" The Lives of a Cell (1974)"Notes on Punctuation" The Medusa and the Snail (1979)"On Committees" The Medusa and the Snail (1979)"On Societies as Organisms" Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, Viking (1974)Related Subjects
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity.... We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.
Lewis Thomas (b. 1913), U.S. physician, educator. "On Committees," The Medusa and the Snail (1979).
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